pyramid scheme vs scheme

scheme vs pyramid scheme

pyramid scheme and scheme both are nouns.

pyramid scheme is not a verb while scheme is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pyramid scheme	Yes	No	No	No
scheme	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, scheme is a hypernym of pyramid scheme; that is, scheme is a word with a broader meaning than pyramid scheme:

pyramid scheme: a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Other hypernyms of pyramid scheme include strategy.

pyramid scheme (noun)	scheme (noun)
a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in	an elaborate and systematic plan of action
	an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
	a schematic or preliminary plan
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
	a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

pyramid scheme (verb)	scheme (verb)
	form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
	devise a system or form a scheme for

Difference between pyramid scheme and scheme

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